Design Consultancy Services

We'll help you make money, save money and win new customers

We work directly with business owners or work with your marketing team providing collaboration, training, and consultancy.

We are design and website development specialists with over 20 years experience in helping clients reach their target market, win new customers and sell more products or services. We help our clients with all aspects of print, website and digital marketing.

We can do that through our vast experience in three complimentary areas:

Website design and development

We design and build websites to help clients stand out from the crowd and grow thier businesses. We help maintain those websites to ensure they keep on working for the business and deliver a valuable return on investment. We are Wordpress specialists and can help you design, develop and manage your Wordpress website.

Digital Marketing

Build your customer base and keep in touch with them through Email. We help by finding, winning and keeping customers engaged, through creatively designed digital marketing campaigns using eShots, social media strategies and eMail newsletters.

Print and display

We are professional graphic designers who design and create powerful printed materials that grab attention to communicate ideas that help build brands. The internet is great, but there's nothing like a well designed, beautifully finished piece of printed literature to really sell a service or product. Whether is a full corporate brochure, catalogue or leaflet we create printed materials that engages the audience

Take a look at some of the projects in our portfolio to find out more:

Portfolio

Business News Wales

News Aggregation Website

Fusion Occupational Health

Print and Digital

Lion Laboratories

Website Design and development

The Business Centre

Graphic Design for Print and Exhibitions

Bridgend Town Council

Brand guidelines and a new logo

Stepping Stones Care

Website, brand and print design

The Fairways Hotel

Website, marketing support and Social Media management

Other brands and logos

Logo design, Brand guidelines and corporate image

Other websites

Our Amazing Team

We have an organic team of associated designers and developers led by Graham Davies a graphic designer and Wordpress specialist developer. Clients range from large organisations to individual business’ and charities.

Noel Davies

Web Developer

Noel is our specialist web developer with top notch HTML, CSS and Javascript skills. Noel also has extensive Wordpress development experience and can create custom themes from flast designs or client briefs

Graham Davies

Creative Director

With over 30 years experience in the creative services sector, Graham marries both graphics design and coding skills and loves a challenge. His priority focus is on building customer relationships and providing clients with a first class service.

GD Graphics is a small and flexible team, supplemented by specialist freelancers and associated professionals that add complimentary skills and experience when needed. We work directly with clients to develop solutions to their specific business problems. Our mission is to help business' grow their client base through effective design and clever marketing.

If you need support for your website or want to find out how we can help you grow your business then get in touch using the details below

WHY CHOOSE US

Strategic Thinking

We use strategic thinking and project management to help you reach your goals. Whether it's the next print or digital marketing task or a new social media campaign, we develop simple but effective ideas to impact audiences in the most effective way.

Focussed

We design and make things to help your business become an even greater success. We design clever things, we build them and we continue to work with you, even after delivering the project, keeping you on the road to success.

Tremendous Value

We always aim to deliver the most effective solutions within the budget that you have. Quote and stick is our motto. Fully transparent pricing, clear communication with no additional costs, we invoice only for what you have ordered.

We take data security seriously, which is why we are Cyber Essentials Accredited

Finance is available for larger projects which help you spread the cost of a new website. With eCommerce websites you can be earning money whilst still paying for it - a great return on your investment. Call or email for details and to discuss your project.

Contact Us

Call us on 01446 731286 or email us using the form below

Alternatively to discuss your project, call 07977 211813. We are happy to talk through your ideas and provide some guidance on what's involved and the potential budget you will need.

Business News Wales

A news aggregation website

Business News Wales attracts and curates news and business information stories from around Wales. The client uses it as a vehicle to generate income from traditional advertising, sponsorship of particular sections of the website and partnership agreements. Partners, usually PR companies have preferential access and can publish stories about their own clients. The website developed and maintained by GD Graphics published in September 2015, has a growing list of subscribers and end enjoys an expanding audience upwards of 400 unique visitors per day.

Want to see more of the site, and read business information specifically about Welsh Businesses visit Business News Wales.com

Date: September 2015

Client: Ecom Digital

Category: Website and Graphic Design

Fusion Occupational Health

Fusion Occupational Health provide a range of workforce health services helping businesses keep staff healthy and fit for work. We have designed a range of printed materials for them including leaflets, brochures, factshhets, banner stands, pop-up display systems, booklets and their new 24 page 'Fuse' magazine.

Lion Laboratories Website

Website design and development

Lion manufacture precision breathalyser equipment from their factory in Barry. They wanted to work with a website developer in Barry to create a bespoke site promoting its products and services. Working directly with the financial director and technical director GD Graphics created a site that saves the client money by moving time consuming administrative tasks online. Featuring an FAQ section, product handbook downloads and a unique breath/blood alcohol calculator the site has proved to be popular with Lions' worldwide distributors.

The Business Centre

Graphic Design, branding, print and display

The Business Centre in Barry provide serviced offices, virtual offices, business address and conference facilities. They rely on our graphic design services in Barry to maintain their brand throughout a range of communications media including advertising, brochures, flyers and corporate stationery. Its a terrific partnership which we feel benefits the Business Centre by having our creative services 'on tap' and able to respond to urgent requests for design and artwork with the minimum of management input.

Bridgend Town Council Brand

Brand design, logo and brand guidelines

Bridgend Town Council needed a new logo and associated brand design guidelines to be developed and we were lucky enough to win the commission. The council were moving premises and used the opportunity to modernise its image and create guidelines which could help other professionals, especially architects and interior designers commissioned with the redevelopment of Carnegie House, the old library in Bridgend.

Stepping Stones Care Services

Brand design, website and printed materials

We were challenged to design a logo and visual vocabulary which could be used across both print and digital media. Stepping Stones Care Services provide homes for young people who require local authority care. We developed their website, designed to appeal to, and provide information for local government departmental staff searching for suitable accommodation for vulnerable children. We have also designed and printed information flyers to support the company and its objectives and designed the handbooks for each of the properties.

The Fairways Hotel

Website design, development and management

The Fairways Hotel in Porthcawl is in an ideal location right on the seafront overlooking Rest Bay. They have recently built a fantastic orangery on the front of the hotel to cater for the growing weddings and events market. We were tasked to design,develop and manage the website and challenged to increase the number of enquiries for wedding bookings and catererd events. Over the past year visitor numbers have increased and the bookings for weddings, particularly in 2016 have grown exponentially.

Logo design and brand management

Getting your corporate image right

We have been lucky to have worked with a great many companies and businesses over the last twenty years. Many have asked us to design either their logo or for larger businesses we have developed a complete brand identity which is reflected in their logo, corporate colour scheme, marketing materials, website, promotional materials, exhibition and display systems and even Christmas cards.

We also manage brands for our clients. We maintain brand consistency throughout their corporate communications, manage image libraries, produce brand guidelines, tone of voice documentation and maintain a repository of design materials to share with third parties as needed.

You can see a small range of these reflected above.

Other website development projects

Building a website that delivers results for the client

The internet has grown over the last twenty years and website technology has changed at a rapid pace. Fortunately we have managed to keep up with all of these changes and our core skills of HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP have served us well. In recent years we have developed extensive knowledge of the Wordpress Content Management System and have designed and developed a number of bespoke Wordpress based websites, some including the WooCommerce eCommerce shoppping cart system.

We also continue to look after our clients websites with services such as maintenance and content editing, website hosting, email hosting, email marketing design and social media management. You can see a small range of these websites reflected above.

Graphic Design and website developers in Barry

Looking for a graphic designer in Barry, or a Barry based website developer to help with your projects

We are graphic designers and website developers who offer our services direct to businesses throughout South Wales. We offer graphic design and website development services, particularly Wordpress development and expertise in Barry, Cardiff, Dinas Powis, Rhoose, Penarth, Sully, Wenvoe, Llantwit Major, Bridgend, Porthcawl. Lookking for a wordpress expert in Cardiff or South Wales. We are based in the Vale of Glamorgan and can help with website design, website development, graphic design, design for print and publicity. We design websites, brochures, leaflets, booklets, reports, catalogues, magazines, newsletters, banner stands, signs, business cards, stationery, logos, Posters, emails, adverts, advertisements, website adverts and flyers. Looking for illustrators in Cardiff or Barry in Wales - then we can help with technical illustration, cartography, architectural graphics, maps and cartoons.